The pressure-wired Stokes element: a mesh-robust version of the Scott-Vogelius element

arXiv2212.09673MaRDI QIDQ6507344FDOQ6507344

Authors: Benedikt Gräßle, Nis-Erik Bohne, S. Sauter 

Abstract: The conforming Scott-Vogelius pair for the stationary Stokes equation in 2D is a popular finite element which is inf-sup stable for any fixed regular triangulation. However, the inf-sup constant deteriorates if the "singular distance" (measured by some geometric mesh quantity $Thet{a}_{min}>0$) of the finite element mesh to certain "singular" mesh configurations is small. In this paper we present a modification of the classical Scott-Vogelius element of arbitrary polynomial order $kgeq4$ for the velocity where a constraint on the pressure space is imposed if locally the singular distance is smaller than some control parameter $eta>0$. We establish a lower bound on the inf-sup constant in terms of $Thet{a}_{mathrmmin}+eta>0$ independent of the maximal mesh width and the polynomial degree that does not deteriorate for small $Thet{a}_{min}ll1$. The divergence of the discrete velocity is at most of size $mathcalO(eta)$ and very small in practical examples. In the limit $etaightarrow0$ we recover and improve estimates for the classical Scott-Vogelius Stokes element.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07)

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